The Editor Speaks (types?)by Ken Holder, Editor
This issue of this magazine (like all the others) may contain:
Humor, Snark, Truth, Thoughts That Might Be Different Than Yours, Ideas You Never
Thought Of, Things You Never Heard Of, and so on.
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I’m Baack!by L. Neil Smith
You may have noticed that there wasn’t any The Libertarian
Enterprise last weekend. That’s because our mighy Editor-in-Chief
Ken Holder and his esteemed and valorous wife Pat were struck down
with what doctors here were insisting on calling by its semi-formal
name, “influenza”. My own wife Cathy and I preceeded them
by a couple of days. As flus go, this was a bad one. I couldn’t sit at
my desk for more than ten minutes at a time; my neck and shoulders got
peculiarly tired and sore. As I lay in bed, afflicted by nausea,
coughing fits, plain old exhaustion, and even worse, I remembered that
I’m an old guy now, and that the flu is supposed to be especially hard
on old guys (also that I never got to meet my grandfather because of
the “Spanish Influenza”; he died, not an old guy at all,
at an Army Camp near Waco, Texas, in 1918).
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Traditionalism and Free Trade:
An Exercise in Libertarian Outreachby Sean Gabb
Of the issues that divide libertarians and traditionalists, free
trade may be the most important. It is central to nearly all our
debates. Do we tend to a contractual or an organic view of human
relationships? Do we embrace or do we fear a technological and
economic progress that is carrying us into a world we cannot predict?
Do we regard mankind as a single race, capable, despite its present
separations, of a single future history? Or do we regard these present
separations as inevitable, and perhaps worth maintaining? Where do we
stand in the debate over England that took place between about 1830
and 1850? In all these and more, how we view free trade will usually
correlate with, and may determine, the side that we take.
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Blade of P’na: a Lightweight Reviewby A.X. Perez
I read Blade of P’na twice before writing this. Once
to enjoy, once to write this. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t
just my inner fan boy promoting the work of one of his favorite
authors.
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Vamp Until ReadyA short story by J. Neil Schulman
Special thanks to my daughter, Soleil, for convincing me to write
this, and to my friend Brad Linaweaver for pointing out I needed a new
ending. (Sorry, Brad, I couldn’t figure out where to put in your
“Don’t take any silver nickels” line)
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Norseman Diaries: Norseman’s Heaven—Almostby Jeff Fullerton
I was torn today this Saturday afternoon—18 February 2017
between writing something about Mars or matters close to home—or
maybe nothing at all as I too have come down with something
awful—could the the flu but more likely some kind of upper
respiratory infection of the throat and sinuses that has been dragging
me down since about the middle of the week. It was an especially rough
12 hours working Friday that left me depleted going into Saturday.
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Escape from Heaven: A Reviewby Sean Gangol
I read this book a while back in a hard copy form, though I now I
have a copy of this book in the Kindle format courtesy of J. Neil
Schulman. Escape from Heaven is actually a departure from J.
Neil Schulman’s usual work. The story begins when Duj Pepperman,
a talk radio host in L.A. gets a call from God during one of his daily
shows. Like most rational people, Pepperman brushes this bizarre
experience off as a crank call. That is until he is taken into heaven
by two beautiful angels.
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Straitjacket Americaby L. Neil Smith
It’s very difficult to convey the unreality, the surreality,
of things that those of us who think for a living (or at least a
serious hobby) have been subjected to, since the General Election last
November, and especially since Inauguration Day in January. The other
day I found myself embroiled in a passionate argument with an old
friend which had started out to be about my reasons for voting for
Donald Trump and had somehow inched its way around to the subject of
lynching black people. I don’t exactly remember how, but,
apparently, since I was born decades after the era of lynchings in the
South, had never actually seen a lynching, or been lynched, myself,
in the view of the person I was arguing with (who was black, but had
also never seen a lynching), I was denying that lynchings had ever
happened.
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TOP KEK: The Best of the Internet, 3-10 February 2017by Giovanni Martelli
Welcome, friends, to Top Kek! Here is your one-stop shop for
the best (and dumbest) of the internet this week. A little about me,
before we begin: 27. Coloradoan. Socially liberal independent.
Anti-war, pro-Russia, #FreeKekistan.
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